Re: Major Defect in Combining Classes of Tibetan Vowels

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 16:08:03 EDT

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    Andrew C. West wrote on 06/25/2003 09:31:51 AM:

    > What I'm suggesting is that although "cui" <0F45, 0F74, 0F72> and "ciu"
    <0F45,
    > 0F72, 0F74> should be rendered identically, the logical ordering of the
    > codepoints representing the vowels may represent lexical differencesthat
    would
    > be lost during the process of normalisation.

    How can things that are visually indistinguishable be lexically different?
    We don't encode the phonological distinctions between homographs; we
    encode text.

    - Peter

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